The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently ordered Custom Ultrasonics to recall all of its automated endoscope reprocessors (AERs) from health care facilities due to continued violations of federal law. The FDA also...
November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, so a recent report published in JAMA Pediatrics, revealing that pregnant woman with elevated blood sugar levels are more likely to have babies with congenital cardiovascular...
According to a recent lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Tennessee, defendant health care providers failed to properly handle the delivery of the minor plaintiff, resulting in extended fetal oxygen deprivation and...
Arguments will be heard in the District of Minnesota as to whether lawsuits involving the Bair Hugger Forced Air Warming Blanket will be consolidated. Sterile operating rooms are usually kept cool in order to help surgeons,...
According to a recent study published in The Lancet, there needs to be a revision of current clinical guidelines for patients who are already at high risk of having a heart attack or stroke. Specifically, the study revealed...
A jury in New Haven Connecticut recently awarded a 58-year-old man $4.2 million for an injury incurred during a surgical procedure that was the result of a doctor’s misdiagnosis. In December 2008, plaintiff visited the...
According to a recent study, medication errors or adverse drug events occurred in about half of all surgeries done at one of the nation’s most preeminent hospitals. Specifically, over the course of an eight-month...
This past month, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“MDL”) consolidated lawsuits filed by families claiming that the anti-nausea drug Zofran (Ondansetron) caused birth defects in their children,...
On November 5, 2015, Michael A. Bottar completed the final leg of a six-city CLE tour for the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers titled “Say What? Using, Misusing and Abusing the Hearsay Rules.” Bottar chaired the...
Formerly Samantha C. Robbins, Ms. Riggi’s practice focuses on cases sounding in medical malpractice, workplace accident, motor vehicle, product liability, wrongful death and severe personal injury matters. Ms. Riggi is a...
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